• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.145-156
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• 2017

Objective: This study aims to compare the usability of the adaptive touch design method with that of the height adjustable design method that are applied to the Korean QWERTY keyboard and Naratgul keyboard on smartphones, examine the results, and present practical implications. Background: Smartphone manufacturers have failed to satisfy every user with their uniform touch keyboard designs that do not consider the high use rates of keypad use. In reality, touch keyboard designing customized for every individual is impossible, but there need to be researches on was to improve usability by having touch areas changed automatically depending on user behaviors or having users adjust the keyboard height depending on their hand size. Method: As for the design methods, an object group was given smartphones with the adaptive touch design method and the other group those with the height adjustable design method. As they entered the same characters in the smartphones, typing error rates and text input speed were measured and the average values were compared. 35 individuals who would frequently use smartphones in daily life participated in the experiment. The group variable was the type of touch keyboards, and the test variables were typing error rates and text input speed, for which a T-test was implemented. Results: As for the QWERTY keyboard, the significant improvement effect was verified as the typing error rate of the adaptive touch design method was 4.21% but that of the height adjustable design method was 3.28% although there was no significant difference in terms of text input speed. As for the Naratgul keyboard, in contrast, the typing error rate of the adaptive touch design method was 2.5% while that of the height adjustable design method was 1.48%, which indicates a measure of improvement, but the effect was not significant. On the other hand, the text input speed per minute was improved as much as 22.2%, which is significant. Conclusion: First, the Korean touch keyboard usability of the adaptive touch design method and that of the height adjustable design method, when applied to Model A of Company L, showed significant difference from each other. Second, the height adjustable design method was applied to the QWERTY keyboard, the typing error rate was improved significantly. This indicates that as the keyboard height was raised, the number of buttons within the range of fingering decreased, decreasing the touch bias was reduced. Third, the height adjustable design method was applied to the Naratgul keyboard, the text input speed was improved. Application: When the QWERTY keyboard was applied to a smartphone as small as 5.5inch or less, it is highly probably that the height adjustable design method decreases the typing error rate. It may be considered to develop additional UX functions to make the keyboard font larger or give users the option to adjust button intervals in utilization of the SW advantages of the height adjustable design method.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.155-159
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• 2014

본 논문은 디지털 회로로 구현된 터치스크린 제어 회로의 응답 속도를 빠르게 하기 위한 알고리즘과 회로구현을 기술하였다. 손가락이 터치되었을 때 해당하는 커패시턴스 값을 기존의 선형적인 방법대신에 적응형으로 탐색함으로써 응답 속도를 개선하였다. 응답 속도의 개선은 사용자가 터치 스크린을 이용하여 키보드 입력시 터치감을 높이는 효과를 가져온다. 시뮬레이션과 FPGA 검증을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘의 응답 속도 향상을 검증하였다. 모바일 터치 스크린 제품에 활용이 예상된다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea
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• pp.706-713
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• 2002

In the multi-pass welding of pressure vessels or ships, the mechanical touch sensor system is generally used together with a manipulator to measure the gap and depth of the narrow gap to perform seam tracking. Unfortunately, such mechanical touch sensors may commit measuring errors caused by the eterioration of the measuring device. An automation system of narrow gap multi-pass welding using a laser vision system which can track the seam line of narrow gap and which can control welding power has been developed. The joint profile of the narrow gap, with 250mm depth and 28mm width, can be captured by laser vision camera. The image is then processed for defining tracking positions of the torch during welding. Then, the real-time correction of lateral and vertical position of the torch can be done by the laser vision system. The adaptive control of welding conditions like welding Currents and welding speeds, can also be performed by the laser vision system, which cannot be done by conventional mechanical touch systems. The developed automation system will be adopted to reduce the idle time of welders, which happens frequently in conventional long welding processes, and to improve the reliability of the weld quality as well.

• International Journal of Korean Welding Society
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2002

In the multi-pass welding of pressure vessels or ships, the mechanical touch sensor system is generally used together with a manipulator to measure the gap and depth of the narrow gap to perform seam tracking. Unfortunately, such mechanical touch sensors may commit measuring errors caused by the deterioration of the measuring device. An automation system of narrow gap multi-pass welding using a laser vision system which can track the seam line of narrow gap and which can control welding power has been developed. The joint profile of the narrow gap, with 250mm depth and 28mm width, can be captured by laser vision camera. The image is then processed for defining tracking positions of the torch during welding. Then, the real-time correction of lateral and vertical position of the torch can be done by the laser vision system. The adaptive control of welding conditions like welding currents and welding speeds, can also be performed by the laser vision system, which cannot be done by conventional mechanical touch systems. The developed automation system will be adopted to reduce the idle time of welders, which happens frequently in conventional long welding processes, and to improve the reliability of the weld quality as well.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1023-1027
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• 2000

In metal cutting, the machining accuracy is more affected by thermal errors than by geometric errors. This paper models of the thermal errors for error analysis and develops on-the-machine measurement system by which the volumetric error are measured and compensated. The thermal error is modeled by means of angularity errors of a column and thermal drift error of the spindle unit which are measured by the touch probe unit with a star type styluses, a designed spherical ball artifact, and five gap sensors. In order to analyze the thermal characteristics under several operating conditions, experiments performed with the touch probe unit and five gap sensors on the vertical and horizontal machining centers.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.739-743
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• 2006

본 논문은 신경회로망을 이용한 화자적응 음성인식 제어시스템을 개발하였다. 화자종속시스템은 단일 화자의 음성만 등록하여 이용하므로 여러 화자의 음성을 인식하는 데는 문제가 있고, 화자독립시스템은 여러 화자를 인식한다. 본 연구 개발에서는 화자적응시스템을 구현하여 화자종속형의 단점을 보완하여 화자 독립과 화자 종속을 혼합하여 사용 할 수 있는 기능으로 화자 적용방법으로 구현하였고, 화자인증(Speaker Verification)도 가능하도록 프로그램 하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1767-1774
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose the adaptation filtering for correcting the movement path of the recognized object by the depth information. When we recognize the object by the depth information, the path error should be occurred because of the noises in the depth information. The path error is corrected by appling the lowpass filtering, but the lowpass filtering is not efficient when the changes of the object's movement are rapid. In this paper, we apply the adaptation filtering that it gives weights adaptively as the difference between the predicted location and the measured location. To apply the adaptation filtering, we can see that the proposed method can correct accurately the path error of the radical change from simulation results.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 상업용 아임센서터치 전자칠판(Interactive Whiteboard System, IWB)을 소개한다. 이 시스템은 손가락이나 펜을 이용하여 접촉식 상호작용이 가능한 화이트보드 스크린을 통해 개인용 컴퓨터를 운용할 수 있도록 도와주는 인터페이스(Interface)이다. 제안된 인터페이스는 윈도우즈 운영체제와 상호작용하며, 온도와 조명의 변화에 적응적으로 동작한다. 제안된 시스템은 카메라에서 입력된 수광부(Optical Receptive Field)의 영상을 참조영상과 비교하여 차이를 계산하고, 그 차이를 이용하여 터치스크린의 좌표값을 계산한다. 계산된 좌표값을 기반으로 윈도우즈 마우스 이벤트를 생성하여 윈도우즈시스템으로 전달한다. 우리는 참조영상을 갱신하기 위해 두 개의 스레드(Thread)을 이용한 임계영역을 구현하고, 차이계산의 신뢰성을 위해 적응적 임계값을 이용한 참조영상의 갱신을 구현한다. 제안된 터치스크린 인터페이스를 장착한 전자칠판 시스템은 향후 국내외 시장의 성장률이 높아 전도유망한 상품이며, 시장성이 밝을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

We present a fast algorithm for Korean text extraction and segmentation from subway signboards using smart phone sensors in order to minimize computational time and memory usage. The algorithm can be used as preprocessing steps for optical character recognition (OCR): binarization, text location, and segmentation. An image of a signboard captured by smart phone camera while holding smart phone by an arbitrary angle is rotated by the detected angle, as if the image was taken by holding a smart phone horizontally. Binarization is only performed once on the subset of connected components instead of the whole image area, resulting in a large reduction in computational time. Text location is guided by user's marker-line placed over the region of interest in binarized image via smart phone touch screen. Then, text segmentation utilizes the data of connected components received in the binarization step, and cuts the string into individual images for designated characters. The resulting data could be used as OCR input, hence solving the most difficult part of OCR on text area included in natural scene images. The experimental results showed that the binarization algorithm of our method is 3.5 and 3.7 times faster than Niblack and Sauvola adaptive-thresholding algorithms, respectively. In addition, our method achieved better quality than other methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.131-139
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• 1998

With the rapid development of communication technology and widespread uses of internet service, utilization of internet-based medical information systems which transmitts moving pictures of medical objects is becoming a common practice. The internet-based medical information service prvovides richer information than conventional services such as touch-tone telephone, personal computers e-mails, or pagers, because "a picture is worth a thousand words". However, the systems passively transmits moving pictures of the medical objects to the users, and thus the system cannot intelligently adjust itself to provide better service. As the tradeoff exists between transmission speed and quality of the image, there is a need that moving pictures be analyzed to adjust the trnasmission speed and image quality. When very little difference between consecutive images are detected, the system can automatically increase the size of the image files, thus enhancing the quality of image. In contrast, the system should increase the number of images to send more pictorial information by sacrificing the quality of each individual image, when a significant difference is detected. In this paper an adaptive filtering technique is introduced which adjusts the quality of image and transmission speed according to a clinical situation in hospital.