• 전자공학회지
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• 제42권7호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2015

Power 소자 기술은 digital & mixed signal device와 on-chip 구현을 위해서 CMOS 공정에 대한 기본 이해가 필요하다. CMOS 공정 기반 위에 power device 공정을 추가하면서 다양한 operation voltage의 power 소자를 구현하고, passive device 들을 동일 공정에서 구현하여 다양한 components 들로 power IC 제품을 design 할 수 있도록 modular process를 제공하는 것이 중요하다. 또한 power device로 주로 사용되는 LDMOS 소자에 대한 performance 개선을 위해 simulation을 통해 key device parameter들의 특성을 예측하고, 구조를 설계하는 것이 Si process 전에 중요한 일 중의 하나이다. 아울러 power management가 potable power, consumer electronics 및 green energy에서 가장 빠르게 성장하는 분야이므로, 차별화된 power 소자 기술을 확보하여 급변하는 시장 환경에 대응하는 것이 필요하다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2008년도 학술대회 2부
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• pp.456-459
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• 2008

현재는 CE 와 PC 를 중심으로 한 디지털 컨버전스의 시대이지만, 그에 반대급부로 많은 제품군의 다양화가 동시에 이루어지고 있다. 각 제품들은 독립적으로 기능을 수행하고 있지만, 유비쿼터스, 홈 네트워크의 개념이 부각되며 모든 제품들은 추후 네트워크상에 연결되게 될 것이며, 기기와 기기간의 연결을 통한 사용에 대한 시장의 요구가 지배적으로 부각될 것이다. 이러한 추세로 볼 때, 제품의 다양화는 결국 수 많은 경우의 수를 가지는 연결형태를 낳을 수 밖에 없으며 제품의 다양화에 따른 수 많은 연결형태에 대한 정의와 제어구조가 필요하다. 이에 더불어 다양한 제품들을 네트워크 상에서 유기적으로 연결하여 사용할 수 있는 다양한 디자인 방법론이 제시되어 왔지만, 실제 사용자의 사용행태 및 각 기기가 가지고 있는 기능적인 특정을 반영하는 기준이 정립되어 있지 않은 경우가 많다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 많은 경우의 수의 연결형태를 구분하고, 제어구조를 확립하기 위한 기기간 연결성디자인방법론을 제시하고 있다. 연결성디자인 가이드라인은 폭 넓은 기기간 연결을 제공하여야 하며, 여러 기기간의 동시제어(3-box 모델)에 대한 고려도 있어야 한다. 연결성디자인의 가이드라인을 제시하기 위해 우리는 사용자의 제품경험단계를 연결, 설정, 사용, 해제의 4 단계로 나눔으로써 수 많은 경우의 수의 연결형태의 구분에 대한 초기적인 정의를 하였다. 이러한 초기적인 정의를 바탕으로, 세부적인 연결형태의 구분을 위해 본 논문에서는 각 사용자 경험단계별 연결형태의 기준을 제시한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.2104-2117
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• 2014

The propagation of smart devices and the rapid expansion of wireless mobile networks have increased the need for ubiquitous device connectivity and contents access. DLNA is currently being used as the de facto standard for connectivity of consumer devices in the digital home. The guidelines provided by DLNA are intended to facilitate device and contents discovery, management, sharing and distribution. However, consumer experience with DLNA has been rather poor and usability not up to speed. Different problems and issues in limited compatibility have been reported due to manufacturer customizations. Such compatibility issues are often difficult to identify by average consumers who are not savvy in information communications and multimedia technology. In this paper, the design and implementation of a DLNA protocol inspection tool is presented for compatibility analysis among DLNA certified devices. The tool monitors the home network and performs analysis of the underlying protocols used by DLNA. The tool can be used for diagnostics and troubleshooting, enabling the user to identify compatibility issues between devices or problems in the network.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.231-241
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• 2011

Recently, system virtualization has been applied to consumer electronics (CE) such as smart mobile phones. Although multi-core processors have become a viable solution for complex applications of consumer electronics, the issue of utilizing multi-core resources in the virtualization layer has not been researched sufficiently. In this paper, we present a new hypervisor design and implementation for multi-core CE devices. We concretely describe virtualization methods for a multi-core processor and multi-core-related subsystems. We also analyze bottlenecks of network performance in a virtualization environment that supports multimedia applications and propose an efficient virtual interrupt distributor. Our new multi-core hypervisor improves network performance by 5.5 times as compared to a hypervisor without the virtual interrupt distributor.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2011

Objective: Making a new ergonomic interface system based on camera vision system, which helps the handicapped in home environment. Background: Enabling the handicapped to manipulate the consumer electronics by the proposed interface system. Method: A wearable device for capturing the eye image using a near-infrared(NIR) camera and illuminators is proposed for tracking eye gaze position(Heo et al., 2011). A frontal viewing camera is attached to the wearable device, which can recognize the consumer electronics to be controlled(Heo et al., 2011). And the amount of user's eye fatigue can be measured based on eye blink rate, and in case that the user's fatigue exceeds in the predetermined level, the proposed system can automatically change the mode of gaze based interface into that of manual selection. Results: The experimental results showed that the gaze estimation error of the proposed method was 1.98 degrees with the successful recognition of the object by the frontal viewing camera(Heo et al., 2011). Conclusion: We made a new ergonomic interface system based on gaze tracking and object recognition Application: The proposed system can be used for helping the handicapped in home environment.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2006

Wireless data communication (WDC) services are increasingly penetrating the market. The two main alternative WDC technologies are wireless LAN and mobile Internet. Services based on these technologies display differences in quality attributes such as terminal device, data transmission speed, pricing scheme and so on. How consumers choose between these two alternatives will be determined by their preferences regarding such quality attributes. In turn, their preferences will affect the evolution of WDC services and related technologies. This study employs a conjoint analysis of consumer valuations of quality attributes of wireless LAN and mobile Internet services. Respondents rate hypothetical service alternatives featuring various combinations of quality attributes. By estimating consumer willingness to pay for the attributes of WDC services, the authors predict the evolution of WDC services and related technologies along various quality dimensions, make a comparison with the results of a previous study, and draw policy implications for national-and company-level R&D strategies.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1547-1550
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• 2002

Reconfigurable computing is a new computing paradigm which has more potential in terms of performance and flexibility. Reconfigurable computing systems are opening a new era in digital signal processing such as multimedia, communication and consumer electronics because they can filter data rapidly and excel at pattern recognition, image process- ing and encryption. Although many reconfigurable computing systems use a conventional programmable device, they carry several serious problems to be solved. This paper proposes a logic block architecture of programmable device suit-able for the reconfigurable computing. Compared to conventional logic blocks, our logic block can improve implementation density, efficiency and speed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.138-151
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• 2004

In this paper, a constant frequency phase shifting PWM-controlled voltage source full bridge-type series load resonant high-frequency inverter using the $4^{th}$ generation IGBT power modules is presented for innovative consumer electromagnetic induction heating applications, such as a hot water producer, steamer and super heated steamer. The bridge arm side link passive capacitive snubbers in parallel with each power semiconductor device and AC load side linked active edge inductive snubber-assisted series load resonant tank soft switching inverter with a constant frequency phase shifted PWM control scheme is evaluated and discussed on the basis of the simulation and experimental results. It is proved from a practical point of view that the series load resonant and edge resonant hybrid high-frequency inverter topology, what is called, DE class type, including the variable-power variable-frequency regulation function can expand zero voltage soft switching commutation area even under low output power setting ranges, which is more suitable and acceptable for newly developed induction heated dual pack fluid heaters. Furthermore, even the lower output power regulation mode of this high-frequency load resonant tank inverter circuit is verified so that this inverter can achieve ZVS with the aid of the single auxiliary inductor snubber.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.135-138
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose an software architecture for home network gateway set-top-box that supports the connectivity between various consumer devices and the Internet simultaneously. To improve the scalability of the software, the proposed architecture uses the abstracted protocol driving structure, and to enhance the user-friendliness, the unified device access and management user interface is implemented using web technology. A prototype for the proposed architecture is implemented for evaluating the usability under the home network test bed.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2006년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.387-389
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• 2006

The LCD TV has many variable functions for consumer. Low temperature driving below minus 20 degree is also one of key functions. Since LCD is not self-luminance device, it is needed backlight system. Recently EEFL(External Electrode Fluorescent Lamp) widely substitutes for CCFL(Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp). It is more cheaper, higher efficiency, and easy to drive parallel connection compared to CCFL. In this paper, several conditions for low temperature driving of EEFL are investigated and a new boost-half bridge inverter for low temperature driving is proposed. Mode analysis is described and experimental results is represented to verify validity of the proposed inverter.