• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.137-144
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• 2004

ECG signals are often contaminated with high-frequency noise such as muscle artifact, power line interference, and others. In the ECG signal processing, especially during a pre-processing stage, numerous noise removal techniques have been used to reduce these high-frequency noise without much distorting the original signal. This paper proposes a new type of digital filter with a continuously variable cutoff frequency to improve the signal quality This filter consists of a cutoff frequency controller (CFC) and variable cutoff frequency lowpass filter (VCF-LPF). From the noisy input ECG signal, CFC produces a cutoff frequency control signal using the signal slew rate. We implemented VCF-LPF based on two new filter design methods called convex combination filter (CCF) and weight interpolation fille. (WIF). These two methods allow us to change the cutoff frequency of a lowpass filter In an arbitrary fine step. VCF-LPF shows an excellent noise reduction capability for the entire time segment of ECG excluding the rising and falling edge of a very sharp QRS complex. We found VCF-LPF very useful and practical for better signal visualization and probably for better ECG interpretation. We expect this new digital filter will find its applications especially in a home health management system where the measured ECG signals are easily contaminated with high-frequency noises .

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.77-83
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• 2004

In low-power VLSI systems, it is effective to suppress leakage current by shutting down megablocks in idle states. Recently, multi-threshold voltage CMOS (MTCMOS) is widely accepted to shutdown power supply. However, it requires short wake-up time as operating frequency increases. This causes large current surge during wake-up process, and it often leads to system malfunction due to severe Power line noise. In this paper, a novel wake-up scheme is proposed to solve this problem. It exploits pipelined wake-up strategy in several stages that reduces maximum current on the power line and its corresponding power line noise. To evaluate its efficiency, the proposed scheme was applied to a multiplier block in the Compact Flash memory controller chip. Power line noise in shutdown and wake-up process was simulated and analyzed. From the simulation results, the proposed scheme was proven to greatly reduce the power line noise compared with conventional schemes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1913_1914
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• 2009

본 논문에서 조명환경하에서 음성/영상 연동시스템을 통해서 외부음향잡음의 차단을 위한 강인한 입술움직임 영상영역을 추적하는 한 가지 방법을 제안한다. 조명환경하에서 강인한 입술움직임 영상영역을 추적하기 위해 온라인상에서 입술움직임 표준영상을 수집하였고 다양한 조명환경에 적응하는 입술 움직임 영상의 특징들을 추출하였다. 동시에 온라인 템플릿 영상을 획득하였고, 이 영상들을 템플릿 정합을 위해 사용했다. 음성/영상처리시스템의 연동결과, 다양한 조명환경하에서 그 연동률을 99.3%까지 높일 수 있었고 음향잡음에 의한 음성인식 실행을 원천적으로 차단할 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.159-166
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• 1999

In this paper, we examined noise figure and the 3rd order intercept point in sensitivity single tone desensitization, and response attenuation by intermodulation spurious of receiver and also analyzed them through simulation based on J-STD-0.18, which is the minimum specification of PCS mobile station. The result of simulation was as follows ; In sensitivity specification, the total noise figure was 5.99dB and the 3rd order intercept point was -33.979dB. Ins ingle tone desensitization and intermodulation spurious response attenuation specification, the total noise figure was 6.375dB and the 3rd order intercept point was -26.99dBm. When there is an interference tone, the nosie figure and the 3rd order intercept point have been increasedly 0.367dB respectively, compared wit that of no interference tone. Because the amount of increase in the 3rd order intercept point was highly raised more than that of noise figure, mixer, closely related to interference tone should be specified in high 3rd order intercept point. At a frequency spacing of 1.25MHz and 2.05MHz from center frequency in IF SAW filter, attenuation should be more than 45dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.514-516
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• 2001

기존의 CATV 망은 하향 신호 위주로 사용되었으나 CATV 망을 이용한 인터넷 서비스를 제공하면서 상향 신호를 제공하게 되었으며 수동적으로 방송 서비스를 제공받는 단계에서 능동적으로 서비스를 요청하는 방향으로 전환되고 있다. CATV 망의 헤드엔드에서 각 단말기로의 하향 신호의 경우 신호가 분기되어 전달되나 상향 신호의 경우 각 장치에서 유입된 잡음이 결합하여 문제를 발생시킨다. CATV 전송망에서 상향 신호에 잡음이 발생하였을 경우 잡음이 유입된 장치를 추적하기 위해 전송 망 관리 시스템에서 사용될 수 있는 상향 잡음 추적 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 이러한 방법을 사용하여 상향 신호에 대한 잡음 전달을 차단하고 정상 신호 전송의 저해 요인을 제거하여 CATV 망에서의 인터넷 서비스의 안전성을 도모할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1927-1928
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• 2008

가변 이득 및 차단주파수 특성을 가지는 5차 CMOS Gm-C 필터를 설계하였다. 설계된 필터는 CMOS 차동 트랜스컨덕터들로 구성하였으며 트랜스컨덕터들은 각각 전압 조정에 의하여 트랜스컨덕턴스 값이 변환되도록 설계하였다. 가변 차단주파수 특성은 외부잡음으로 발생할 수 있는 필터 차단주파수의 변형을 보상할 수 있고 한 개의 필터로써 다중대역 수신 단에 적용할 수 있도록 하고자 하였다. HSPICE 시뮬레이션 결과, 1.5MHz$\sim$3.5MHz의 차단주파수의 조정이 가능하였고 이득은 -2.8dB$\sim$2.6dB으로의 조정이 가능하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.352-354
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• 2001

컴퓨터 기술과 정보통신 기술의 발달로 인터넷 사용이 손쉬워 짐에 따라 청소년들에게 무제한으로 유해 사이트가 공개되어 많은 사회적인 문제가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷 사용자에게 음란 정보를 담고 있는 웹사이트 접근을 차단하는 방법에 관한 것으로 칼라 영상에서 인체를 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 효율적인 인체 검출을 위해 인체의 특징의 하나인 피부색을 HSI(Hue, Saturation, Intensity)의 공간에서 조명의 강도 및 각도 차에 영향이 적은 H값과 피부색을 이루는 RGB(Red, Green, Blue)공간에서 R값의 비를 이용하여 추출하고, 미디언 필터를 사용하여 1차적으로 잡음 제거를 하고, 라벨링을 통하여 임계값보다 작은 라벨을 제거함으로써 2차적인 잡음을 제거한다. 다양한 자세의 전신을 템플릿으로 DB화하고, 유형을 2차적인 잡음을 제거한 영상의 크기와 동일하게 확대 한 다음, 템플릿 매칭으로 유사성을 비교하여 인체를 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험 결과, 피부색을 검출하는 제안 방법이 명암 차를 극복하였고, 다양한 피부색 검출에 양호한 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 다양한 템플릿을 만들어, 1차 잡음제거와 라벨링으로 2차 잡음제거를 한 입력 영상과의 템플릿 매칭으로 다양한 자세의 인체를 검출할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.499-502
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• 2017

The needs of efficient electricity use and current measurement for electrical safety have been increased. Hence, the current sensor is used, especially non-contact current sensor which can measure the current without blocking the circuit using hall effect. However, the accurate measuring of the current sensor is inhibited due to the inflow of various noises in this current sensor. In this article, a stronger current sensor against the noise is proposed using low pass FIR filter to the existing current sensor. FIR filter was designed to block the range over the certain frequency at the output of the current sensor to eliminate the external noises, and so on. As a result, more accurate and close measurements were possible.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1840-1846
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• 2014

An experimental outdoor optical wireless data communication system with an optical filter in the presence of sunlight or artificial light is presented. For the efficient blocking of light noise outdoors, we employ an optical filter made of microlouver film on the top of the photo diode. This filter is designed to block any light noise incident from an angle higher than $30^{\circ}$ on the assumption that light noise does not face the photo diode horizontally. Outdoor experiments daytime with the optical filtering have been conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that the optical filter effectively blocks nearly all light noise incident from the specified angle or higher and more than 90% of the transmitted data packets are successfully received. The proposed outdoor visible light data communication can thus facilitate a practical free space outdoor optical wireless data transmission.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.89-94
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• 2011

In this paper, we developed the W-band MMIC low noise amplifier for the millimeter-wave seeker using the tuner system. The MHEMT devices for MMIC LNA exhibited DC characteristics with a drain current density of 692mA/mm, an extrinsic transconductance of 726mS/mm. The current gain cutoff frequency(fT) and maximum oscillation frequency($f_{max}$) were 195GHz and 305GHz, respectively. The fabricated W-band low noise amplifier represented S21 gain of 7.42dB at 94 GHz and noise figure of 2.8dB at 94.2 GHz.