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Estimation of Solar Radiation Potential in the Urban Buildings Using CIE Sky Model and Ray-tracing

  • Yoon, Dong Hyeon;Song, Jung Heon;Koh, June Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.141-151
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    • 2020
  • Since it was first studied in 1980, solar energy analysis model for geographic information systems has been used to determine the approximate spatial distribution of terrain. However, the spatial pattern was not able to be grasped in 3D (three-dimensional) space with low accuracy due to the limitation of input data. Because of computational efficiency, using a constant value for the brightness of the sky caused the simulation results to be less reliable especially when the slope is high or buildings are crowded around. For the above reasons, this study proposed a model that predicts solar energy of vertical surfaces of buildings with four stages below. Firstly, CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage) luminance distribution model was used to calculate the brightness distribution of the sky using NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) solar tracking algorithm. Secondly, we suggested a method of calculating the shadow effect using ray tracing. Thirdly, LOD (Level of Detail) 3 of 3D spatial data was used as input data for analysis. Lastly, the accuracy was evaluated based on the atmospheric radiation data collected through the ground observation equipment in Daejeon, South Korea. As a result of evaluating the accuracy, NMBE was 5.14%, RMSE 11.12, and CVRMSE 7.09%.

Effectiveness of Road Lighting on Driver' Vision (도로조명 방식이 운전자 시지각에 미치는 영향)

  • Jeong, Jun-Hwa;Lee, Suk-Ki;Kim, Won-Sik;Lee, Mi-Ae
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2012
  • PURPOSES : Road lighting facilities increase the visibility of road at night in order to improve traffic driver safety and comfort. Generally speaking, current pole lighting has a tendency to create problems of glare and flicker. The phenomenon of glare gives discomfort due to increase of scattered light, when high luminance is in driver's field of view. The phenomenon of flicker occurs due to the driver passing through discontinuous pockets of pole lighting areas. These phenomenon increase eye strain and decrease driver safety. METHODS : Low height line lighting that distributes light lower than driver's eye level has been developed and evaluated to reduce the problems linked to current pole lighting. A test was undertaken with 4 conditions(turn on the general pole lighting, turn off alternate pole lighting, turn on the line lighting and line lighting with 50% dimming). A driver written survey was conducted in order to gain driver feedback. RESULTS : Pupil size and brow frequency compared with degree in pole lighting are reduced. CONCLUSIONS : Low height line lighting environment makes drivers more comfortable than pole lighting environment and is positive lighting method in the energy saving and landscape aspect.

The Binary Tree Vector Quantization Using Human Visual Properties (인간의 시각 특성을 이용한 이진 트리 벡터 양자화)

  • 유성필;곽내정;박원배;안재형
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.429-435
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose improved binary tree vector quantization with consideration of spatial sensitivity which is one of the human visual properties. We combine weights in consideration with the responsibility of human visual system according to changes of three primary color in blocks of images with the process of splitting nodes using eigenvector in binary tree vector quantization. Also we propose the novel quality measure of the quantization images that applies MTF(modulation transfer function) to luminance value of quantization error of color image. The test results show that the proposed method generates the quantized images with fine color and performs better than the conventional method in terms of clustering the similar regions. Also the proposed method can get less quantized level images and can reduce the resource occupied by the quantized image.

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A Study on the Contrast Ratio Improvement of Surface Discharge AC PDP (면방전 AC PDP에서 콘트라스트 개선에 관한 연구)

  • An, Yang-Ki;Yoon, Dong-Han
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.51 no.11
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    • pp.536-540
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    • 2002
  • This paper proposes a method to drive an AC plasma display panel(PDP) with a significantly improved contrast ratio. In the proposed method, during the first sub-field of one frame, all PDP cells are reset by the ramp waveform, and during the other sub-field, only the cells turned on in the previous sub-field are reset. No light is emitted during the reset period of every sub-field except the first sub-field. For a 10-bit picture, the luminance of the dark level for the proposed method is 10 times lower than that for the conventional method, in which the ramp waveform for the reset is used in every sub-field. Accordingly, the contrast ratio for the proposed method is 10 times higher than that for the conventional method. For the 10-bit picture, the measured contrast ratio was about 3080:1 for the proposed method and about 285:1 with the conventional method, a result the contrast ratio has been increased in 10.8 times. This result shows that the proposed method can realize an image with high contrast ratio.

Bit Depth Expansion using Error Distribution (에러 분포의 예측을 이용한 비트 심도 확장 기술)

  • Woo, Jihwan;Shim, Woosung
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2017
  • A Bit-depth expansion is a method to increase the number of bit. It is getting important as the needs of HDR (High Dynamic Range) display or resolution of display have been increased because the level of luminance or expressiveness of color is proportional to the number of bit in the display. In this paper, we present effective bit-depth expansion algorithm for conventional standard 8 bit-depth content to display in high bit-depth device (10 bits). Proposed method shows better result comparing with recently developed methods in quantitative (PSNR) with low complexity. The proposed method shows 1db higher in PSNR measurement with 40 times faster in computational time.

Quality Characteristics and Anti-Oral microbial Activity of Jelly Using Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis) Leaves Extract (죽엽 추출액을 이용한 젤리 품질평가 및 구강세균에 대한 항균효과)

  • Park, Kyung-Lan;Kang, Sung-Tae;Kim, Min-Ju;Oh, Hee-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2018
  • This study examined the quality characteristics and anti-oral microbial activity of bamboo leaf jelly prepared with different 5 levels (0, 10, 20, 30, and 40%) of bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis) leaf extract. The sugar contents of bamboo leaf jelly were increased significantly by increasing the level of bamboo leaf extract. The luminance and Hunter's a values of the jelly samples increased with increasing bamboo leaf extract, but the 40% bamboo leaf jelly had the lowest Hunter's b values. The hardness, adhesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness increased significantly with increasing bamboo leaf extract. Among the mechanical properties, only the flavor of the jelly with 30 and 40% bamboo leaf extract were increased significantly. The extract of bamboo leaves had strong antimicrobial activity against S. mutans, S. sobriuns, P. gingivalis, and P. intermedia at a concentration of 40%. These results suggest that bamboo leaf extract can be useful in the production of high quality jelly.

Quality Characteristics of Black Ginseng Jelly (흑삼 농축액 첨가 수준에 따른 흑삼 젤리의 품질 특성)

  • Kim, Ae-Jung;Lim, Hee-Jung;Kang, Shin-Jung
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.196-202
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    • 2010
  • The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the quality characteristics of black ginseng jelly prepared with different 5 levels(0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0%) of black ginseng extract. We assessed the ginsenosides level of white and black ginseng for comparison between white and black ginseng. And we conducted the pH, sugar content, Hunter's color values, the mechanical characteristics and sensory evaluation of black ginseng jelly samples. The levels of ginsenoside $Rg_3,\;Rh_1$, and $Rh_2$ of black ginseng were higher than those of white ginseng. The more black ginseng extract was increased, the sugar contents of black ginseng jelly were significantly increased(p<0.05). We noted that the luminance and Hunter's b values of jelly samples were decreased according to black ginseng extract was increased, but in Hunter's a values 0.5% black ginseng jelly was the highest of the all. With regard to the mechanical properties of the black ginseng jelly samples, the score of hardness, gumminess and chewiness were significantly increased. In color, taste and overall quality, the score of jelly with 1.0% black ginseng extract was significantly increased than those of the all.

A Study on the Psychological Responses by the change of Illuminance and Color temperature in LED (LED 광원의 색온도와 조도 변화에 따른 심리반응 연구)

  • Yi, Yon-Soo;Ha, Mi-Kyoung
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 2012
  • As the importance of eco-friendly and energy saving issues are emphasized in lighting as consciousness about energy saving is elated worldwide, demand for natural resources such as gas increases, supply of LED lighting is spread. Owing to white LED's development and price fall. It is expected to LED High Luminance Emitting Diode. LED's brightness and long life-time that surpass fluorescent light in the latest as well as is used by back light source of thin film LCD, low electric power attrition rate by advantage do and widen the market at the world lighting lamp market that is potential market. Accordingly, study about suitability of LED lighting is activated but space that apply actual LED lighting fixtures yet is less and advanced researches about LED fixtures' applied apaces are slight compared to existing light source up to now because is not many on this. The result of the experiment shows similar tendency with the existing light sources'. Through a psychological reaction experiment in the LED lighting experiencing space that can control of color temperature and lighting level, this study is wished to use to the data for lighting design of space that LED lighting fixtures are applied hereafter.

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Fabrication and Characteristics of Organic EL Devices using Conducting Polymer as an Electrode (전도성 고분자를 전극으로 한 유기 전기발광 소자의 제작 및 특성)

  • Lee, Kwang-Youn;Kim, Young-Kwan;Kwon, Oh-Kwan;Sohn, Byoung-Chong;Kim, Ok-Byoung
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.323-327
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    • 1999
  • A water-soluble conducting polymer (CPP400 Paste) containing a derivative of polythiophene with several dopant was investigated as an anode material for organic electroluminescent devices. The device of ITO/CPP 400 Paste/TPD/$Alq_3$/Li:Al was fabricated, where CPP 400 Paste films were prepared by spin coating and TPD and $Alq_3$, films were prepared by vacuum evaporation. It was found that the turn-on voltage, current density, and luminance of the devices were dependent upon the thickness of CPP 400 Paste film in the Electroluminescent and current-voltage characteristics of the devices. This phenomena were explained by the energy level diagram of the device with the energy levels of the CPP400 Paste obtained by cyclic voltammetric method.

ACHIEVING CONSISTENCY IN LIGHTING SCHEMES FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK ZONES THROUGH LIGHTING SIMULATION

  • Khaled Nassar;Soo-Young Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2007.03a
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    • pp.269-278
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    • 2007
  • Nighttime construction is being adopted by many state DOT's as a way to mitigate the impact of construction operations on the traveling public. Although a number of states have developed standard specifications for nighttime lighting, these standards are usually in the form of generic requirement statements that only specify minimum illuminance levels. The lighting standards do not include specific ways to achieve this illuminance level such as lighting arrangements and configurations for various work zone plans and construction operations. This leaves confusion between the traffic engineers and the contractors and does not guarantee consistency in those plans, thus affecting productivity and safety (lighting conditions account for 18% to 28% of work zone accidents). The main objective of this study is to utilize three dimensional animation and lighting analysis software to study and model lighting conditions of a construction site. This is expected to increase the safety and productivity of construction operations by achieving consistency in work zone lighting schemes. A computerized model was developed, called Nitelite. Various lighting schemes can be studied using the software to provide for typical applications including lighting fixture's locations, luminance, mounting height, tilt angle, and fixture type. The results from the developed software tool were validated through comparisons with previous research conducted using field measurements.

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