• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

This paper presents a development of a mobile sign language recognition system for daily communication of deaf people, who are sign dependent to access language, with hearing people. The system observes their sign by a cap-mounted camera and accelerometers equipped on wrists. To create a real application working in mobile environment, which is a harder recognition problem than lab environment due to illumination change and real-time requirement, a robust hand segmentation method is introduced and HMMs are adopted with a strong grammar. The result shows 99.07% word accuracy in continuous sign.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.264-268
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• 2005

This paper describes user context awareness system, which is one of the most essential technologies in various application services of ubiquitous computing. The proposed system used two-axial accelerometer, embedded in $SenseWear^{(R)}$ PRO2 Armband (BodyMedia). It was worn on the right upper arm of the experiment subjects. Using this data, PC-based fuzzy inference system was realized to distinguish human motion states, such as, tying, sitting, walking and running. The recognition rates of human motion states were 100 %, 98.64 %, 99.27 % and 100 % respectively for tying, sitting, walking and running.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.640-645
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• 2008

In progress to ubiquitous intelligent society, there are emerging technologies such smart wear related researches as wearable computer, smart fiber and smart fashion. In this paper, wearable 3D information acquisition device which improved both advanced in convenience and portable is implemented. 3D information input system is basically grouped of some modules; Gyro sensor for acquisition of 3D space coordinate, RF transmitter/receiver, and signal processing module etc. To testify the validity of designed system, some experiments are performed using lest board with respect to the communication distance, easiness of wearable and operation sensibility.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.35-40
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• 2014

As small sized bio-sensors and digital yarns are developed, digital wear measuring vital signs can be used for individuals' health, the elderly care and sports activities. This paper discusses a database structure for analyzing stress state, pulses, positions, exercise amount of user based on vital signs measured for 24 hours measured by the wear and GPS information, and a storage for storing XML documents following a standard HL7 meta-model. By analyzing the stored information, the system identifies the stress state and exercise amount of users. Pulses, exercise intensity and emergency situations can be also detected by the system in real time. This paper discusses the implementation of a system enabling to acquire and analyze vital signals to understand user behavior patterns.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.35-50
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• 2002

The purpose of this research is 1) to search for the possibility of DMDI(Digitalwear based on motion-detective input technology) as an apparel product and 2) to develop designs of DMDI based on consumers' demand. This research consists of part I and part Ⅱ. In partⅠ, six design guidelines for designing of DMDI and five feasible applications were suggested as the result of an empirical study. In part Ⅱ of this research, two basic directions for designing of DMDI were suggested on the basis of the findings in part Ⅰ. Total 5 design prototypes of DMDI were developed, for which ‘wearability as an apparel product’ and ‘usability as an physical interface’ were intensively considered.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.287-294
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• 2008

This paper describes an implementation of a wide-range dimming controller of a LED backlight for Avionics applications such as a control display unit(CDU) and multi-function display(MFD). The digital dimming controller employing a current controlled buck converter and light sensor feedback is proposed. The proposed system provides a wide dimming control range of from 150fL to 0.05fL(3000:1) required for avionic displays. The experimental results are provided to show the control performance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1521-1527
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• 2013

This study proposes a wearable master device that can measure the joint stiffness and the angular displacement of a human operator to enhance the adapting capability of a slave system. A lightweight inertial sensor and the exoskeleton mechanism of the master device can make an operator feel comfortable, and artificial pneumatic muscles having a working principle similar to that of human muscles improve the performance of the slave device on emulating what a human operator does. Experimental results revealed that the proposed master/slave system based on the muscle stiffness sensor yielded uniform tracking performance compared with a conventional position-feedback controller when the payload applied to the slave system changed.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.17-23
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• 2020

As the number of households with companion animals increases, the demand to monitor the health of companion animals in remote locations far away is increasing. We are going to put a wearable device on a companion animal so that it can monitor the heart beat signal from a remote location. However, the monitoring method using Bluetooth has some disadvantages. it can be accessed only in a short distances. In case of WiFi, large power consumption is the problem. To overcome these issues, we propose a system to reduce power consumption by indirectly receiving a user's request using Bluetooth at a time when the user does not need it, and sending sensor data through WiFi when the user makes a monitoring request.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2010

최근 고성능 모바일 단말기와 다양한 컨텐츠가 등장하면서 유비쿼터스 환경에서의 사용자 인터페이스에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 특히 모바일 프로젝터는 장소의 제한을 받지 않고 큰 화면을 다른 사람과 공유할 수 있는 장점이 있는 반면에 단말기를 직접 제어해야 하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 카메라를 통해 입력된 영상 정보만으로 사용자가 스크린에 비추는 레이저 포인터를 실시간으로 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 색상 감지와 움직임 감지로 나뉜다. 단일 프레임에서 영상 성분의 평균을 이용한 조건을 검사하여 레이저 포인터 색상 영역을 검출하고, 인접한 프레임과 현재 프레임과의 차를 구하며 그 차이가 임계값보다 큰 영역을 움직임 영역으로 검출한다. 마지막으로 색상 검출 영역과 움직임 검출 영역을 동시에 만족하는 영역을 최종적으로 레이저 포인터 영역으로 인식한다. 본 기법은 영상 정보만 사용하기 때문에 센서나 불필요한 장비를 착용할 필요가 없고 영상 성분 평균을 이용하므로 프로젝터 성능에 따른 조도의 변화에 강건하여 효과적인 레이저 포인터 검출이 가능하다. 실험결과는 주변 조명의 밝기에 따라 차이가 있지만 대부분 80% 이상의 검출률과 16% 미만의 오검출률의 성능으로 나타났고, 이 같은 결과는 사용자의 주관적인 만족을 보장하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.643-644
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• 2022

시청각 중복 장애인은 타인과 의사소통에 어려움이 있기 때문에 이에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 시청각 중복 장애인이 타인과 실시간 의사소통이 가능한 팔목 보호대 형태의 Google Cloud Speech API 기반 점자 단말기를 제안한다. 점자 단말기에는 심박, 온도, 인바디 센서를 부착하여 착용자의 건강상태를 분석한다. 또한 타인과 실시간 소통을 위해 점자 출력 닷 셀 6 개와 점자 입력버튼을 2 × 3 형태로 배치하여 STT 를 통해 타인의 음성을 점자형태로 출력하여 읽거나 점자를 입력하여 TTS 를이용해 타인에게 스피커를 통해 의사를 전달할 수 있다. 이를 통해 시청각 중복 장애인들은 타인과 실시간 의사소통과 정보 취득에 자유로워질 수 있다.