• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.245-248
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• 2001

Howling을 억제하기 위하여 Howling의 원인인 피드백 신호를 적응 필터로 소거하는 방법이 연구되어왔다. 이 방법은 적응 필터로 피드백 경로의 전달함수를 추정하고, 입력 신호에서 피드백 신호를 소거하는 것이다. 그러나, Open-100p 이득이 평탄하고 시스템의 Group-delay가 짧은 Howling의 경우에는, 현재 다른 분야에서 사용되고 있는 Howling 억제 기법을 이용하는 것은 어렵다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 적응 Notch 필터를 이용하여 Howling을 억제하는 방법을 제안, 평가하고, 또한, 이득 여유를 증가시키기 위한, Notch 필터의 설계 방법에 관해서 검토한 후, 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 타당성을 입증하고자 한다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.623-629
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• 1998

To provide sufficient sound to the hearing-impaired person(HIP) who have many difficulty in communication with others using general telephone, big amplification is needed. But big amplification can occur howling as a side effect. In this study we developed the new technique of big amplification without howling, manufactured and estimated the new hearing aid telephone. Telephone speech is divided to three frequency band, amplified respectively and fitted to HIP's hearing ability. The telephone speech frequency is monitored by counter in time domain. The counter transfers the sinusoidal sound to rectangular wave using comparator and counts the number of rectangular wave in a certain time period, that is frequency, to monitor the howling. Telephone have microphone and speaker, which are fitted in a rigid structure and frequency band of telephone sound is limited, so howling occurs in the limited frequency band. If the counter notices that howling conditions happen, microprocessor decreases quickly the gain of the related frequency band. The result of test of our new hearing aid telephone showed that we can amplifiy the sound as much as 40dB, which is meaningful level to many HIP, and make HIP increase their perception ability from 20% to 60.8% in 1 syllable test and from 28.9% to 78% in 2 syllable test.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.919-924
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• 1994

The use of adaptive feedback cancellation to prevent howling requires a reference signal that is correlated with the feedback signal by is not correlated with the input signal. Such a signal is hard to obtain in hearing aids. In this paper, the use fo frequency compression to decorrelate the output signal with input signal for use as reference is presented. Performance evaluation results indicate that with the proper choice of system parameters, the use of this system can provide a significant increase in howling margin with minimal deterioration in output signal quality.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1998 no.11
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• pp.173-174
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• 1998

We developed the high power telephone for hearing impaired person (HIP) who can't communicate with others by general telephone. The general telephone can't delivered enough sound for HIP to understand telephone speech. In this study, we developed the method of telephone speech amplification proper to HIP and effective howling suppression which occurred as a side effect of amplification. In our new telephone, speech sound is divieded to 3 band pass filter path, amplified respectively fit to HIP's hearing ability, and monitored howling in time domain. The result of test of our telephone showed that we can amplify the sound as much as 40dB, which is very useful to HIP, and make HIP increase the perception of telephone speech.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07b
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• pp.692-694
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• 1993

Acoustic noise from the various facilities makes man unpleasant and let researchers find the way for reducing it on environmental point of view. Special way to reduce the acoustic noise had suggested by the concept of Active Silencer. But, it has propagation delay time accumulated during the signal passage and howling effect. This paper suggestes a way to anhilate howling effects, and reduces the total delay time drasticaly by attaching microphone to the speaker. This paper will show how it works by some materials.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.45-50
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• 2005

In digital hearing aid system, one of the main problems is acoustic feedback which is known as howling because of miniaturization md high-gain amplification. In this paper, we proposed a feedback cancellation algorithm for hearing aid using time delay and time-varying decorrelation filter. The proposed algorithm has a kind of adaptive filter structure, which is combined with time delay and time-varying decorrelation filter to improve feedback cancellation. An all pass filter was implemented as the time-varying decorrelation filter using low frequency modulator. From the result of computer simulation, it is verified that the proposed algorithm has good ability to cancel feedback.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.282-290
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• 2006

We have developed a multi band digital hearing aid algorithm emphasizing feedback cancellation and a hardware module to evaluate the performance of our algorithm. The hearing aids should be able to compensate for individual hearing loss characteristics of hearing impaired person. Thus hearing aids need the function of multi-bands amplification and the capabilities of feedback cancellation that can remove howling caused by acoustic feedback. In this paper, we proposed a digital hearing aid algorithm which has multi-bands compensation using modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) and can efficiently remove acoustic feedbacks. Moreover, we have developed digital hearing aid hardware module, which can evaluate hearing aid algorithms in real time operation. The developed algorithm and hardware module were verified through computer simulation and clinical tests. Through operational experiments, good performances in real time operation environment and an efficient howling cancellation were also observed. The developed hardware module can operate in stable condition and it is expected to become a good hardware platform for developing hearing aid algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.246-249
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• 2005

음향 시스템에 있어서 하울링 현상은 음성 레벨을 제한함으로써 음성의 명료도를 저하시키는 주된 요인이다. 그리고 이를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 하울링 주파수 대역의 게인을 낮추어 음향신호의 피드백을 최소화 하는 것이 일반적이기 때문에 하울링 주파수를 찾아내는 것이 하울링 제어에 있어서 가장 핵심적인 요소가 된다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 하울링 주파수를 자동으로 검출할 수 있는 기법을 제시하였다. 이는 외부로부터 입력된 오디오신호가 하울링 신호 특성을 만족하는 정도를 ‘하울링 지수’라는 파라메터로 정의한 후 이를 기준으로 하울링 발생여부를 판단하고 하울링으로 판별된 신호의 최대 진폭을 갖는 주파수를 하울링 주파수로 출력하는 기법이다. 본 하울링 신호 자동 검출기법의 내용을 검증하기 위하여 하울링 자동 검출 프로그램을 제작하여 실험을 수행한 결과 전체 하울링 신호의 95% 이상을 검출할 수 있었다.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.629-635
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• 2000

Wheel /rail interaction has been known as a major source of railway noise. In this paper, a low noise wheel structure is developed and its effect on noise reduction is investigated. The developed low noise wheel employees a rubber material inserted into a steel rim or mounted on the wheel surface. Since the low noise wheel has low stiffness and high damping ratio compared to a solid wheel, the measurement results show that it reduces the rolling and squeal noise. It turns out that the proposed wheel could reduce interior noise level by 4∼5dB(A) and vehicle vibration level by 7∼10 dB. Although the proposed structure seems to be promising in noise reduction of railway vehicles, the low noise wheel is to be verified in endurance and cost effect.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.203-208
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• 2000

The vibration of a mask degrades the color purity in CRT Therefore, a damping wire is put into contact with the mask to reduce the vibration in perfectly flat CRT. In this study, we analyzed the vibration of the mask contacting with the damping wire using FEM. First we calculated the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the mask by modal analysis, and compared them with the measured results to confirm our finite element model. The modal analysis of the wire was also performed to investigate resonance with the mask. Finally, the transient dynamic analysis of the mask contacting with the wire was performed. The vibration of the mask was measured to confirm our analysis, and the results are in good agreement with the analysis.