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Past Block Matching Motion Estimation based on Multiple Local Search Using Spatial Temporal Correlation (시공간적 상관성을 이용한 국소 다중 탐색기반 고속 블록정합 움직임 추정)

  • 조영창;남혜영;이태홍
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.356-364
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    • 2000
  • Block based fast motion estimation algorithm use the fixed search pattern to reduce the search point, and are based on the assumption that the error in the mean absolute error space monotonically decreases to the global minimum. Therefore, in case of many local minima in a search region we are likely to find local minima instead of the global minimum and highly rely on the initial search points. This situation is evident in the motion boundary. In this paper we define the candidate regions within the search region using the motion information of the neighbor blocks and we propose the multiple local search method (MLSM) which search for the solution throughout the candidate regions to reduce the possibilities of isolation to the local minima. In the MLSM we mark the candidate region in the search point map and we avoid to search the candidate regions already visited to reduce the calculation. In the simulation results the proposed method shows more excellent results than that of other gradient based method especially in the search of motion boundary. Especially, in PSNR the proposed method obtains similar estimate accuracy with the significant reduction of search points to that of full search.

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A Study on the Adjustment Method of Bicycle Shoe Cleat for Bicycle Fitting System

  • Shon, Gyoung-Hoan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2019
  • The nation's fraternity and elite players who have built up a global bicycle infrastructure often find it to be a problem with the bicycle's speed and speed reduction, pain in knees and hip joints, or even with the bike itself, or with the bike's own physical defects or a riding posture. However, we found that most cases of cleat adjustment errors were likely to be true. Accurate adjustment of the cleats is the most important of the entire fitting process and can be the basis for improving the ability of the bicycle rider and preventing injury. Therefore, the study was intended to give a prior study of bicycle fitting, which can improve bicycle efficiency and prevent injury when riding bicycle, and specific ways of adjusting bicycle shoe cleats, and the following results were obtained. First, the cleat characteristics of Shimano, LOOK and Speedplay, which are currently used in public, and the characteristics during the cleat adjustment process, were derived. In addition, the structure and characteristics of dedicated shoes using cleats and the method of using pedalling by the structure of shoes after adjusting the cleats were derived. Second, the position of the shoe and its relationship with torque in pedalling was discussed, and the method of adjusting front and back of cleats was derived. Third, leg length, ASIS, Q-Angle and Q-factor etc. were analyzed and the method of setting and adjusting cleat left and right values were derived. Fourth, the relationship between walking angle and cleat rotation was analyzed, the method was derived, and the torque size and angle behind the cleat adjustment were compared and analyzed using the spinner to indicate the torque and the effective mean torque angle after the cleat adjustment.

Sporicidal Efficacy of a Fumigation Disinfectant Composited to Ortho-phenylphenol Against Spores of Clostridium Perfringens (Ortho-phenylphenol을 주성분을 하는 훈증소독제의 Clostridium perfringens 아포에 대한 살아포 효과)

  • Cha, Chun-Nam;Cho, Youyoung;Lee, Hu-Jang
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.217-222
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    • 2014
  • This study was performed to evaluate the sporicidal efficacy of a fumigation disinfectant containing 20% ortho-phenylphenol against Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) spores. In this research, efficacy test of fumigant against C. perfringens spores was carried out according to French standard NF T 72-281. C. perfringens spores working culture suspension number (N value), all the spore numbers on the carriers exposed with the fumigant (n1, n2, and n3), the number of bacterial spore suspensions by pour plate method (N1), the number of bacterial spore suspensions by filter membrane method (N2) and the mean number of bacterial spore recovered on the control-carriers (T value) were obtained from the preliminary test. In addition, the reduction number of C. perfringens spores exposed with the fumigant (d value) was calculated using T value, the mean number of bacterial spore in recovery solution (n'1) and the mean number of bacterial spore on carriers plated in agar (n'2). N value was $4.3{\times}10^7spores/mL$, and n1, n2, and n3 were higher than 0.5N1, 0.5N2 and 0.5N1, respectively. Additionally, T value was $4.9{\times}10^5spores/carrier$. In the sporicidal effect of the fumigant, the d value was 4.52log reduction. According to the French standard for the fumigant, the d value for the effective sporicidal fumigant should be over than 3log reduction. The results indicated that Fumagari $OPP^{(R)}$ had an efficient sporicidal activity against spores of C. perfringens, then the fumigant can be applied to disinfect food materials and kitchen appliances contaminated with bacterial spores.

Clinical Study of Long Term Effect of Transvaginal Ultrasound Guided Radiofrequency Myolysis for Treatment of Uterine Leiomyoma (자궁근종 치료를 위한 질경유 초음파 유도하 고주파 자궁근종용해술의 장기간 효과에 대한 임상적 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Seok;Lee, Il-Han;Kim, Dong-Ho;Lee, Sang-Hun
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2008
  • Objective: This study was performed to investigate the efficacy and safety of radiofrequency (RF) myolysis under transvaginal ultrasound guidance. Methods: Transvaginal RF myolysis had been performed in one hundred nine women with uterine leiomyoma at Chung-Ang University hospital between Dec. 2004 and Mar. 2007. All patients, mean aged $42.8{\pm}5.8$ years, desired their uterine conservation. Patients underwent physical examination, transvaginal pelvic ultrasound for measurement of the lesions preoperatively. Follow up was done at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months after RF myolysis by same physician and measurement of size and volume of myoma and improvement of myoma specific symptoms such as menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea were checked at each visit. Results: The mean maximal diameter of myomas treated by RF myolysis was $6.1{\pm}0.5\;cm$ and average time of the procedure was $16.3{\pm}8.5$ minutes. A significant decrease of myoma size and volume was observed at 1 month after myolysis. Mean reduction in maximal diameter was $29.9{\pm}4.8%$ at 1 week (p<0.001), $41.5{\pm}1.5%$ at 1 month (p=0.05), $46.2{\pm}3.9%$ at 3 months (p=0.003), $54.6{\pm}6.1%$ at 6 months (p<0.001) after RF myolysis respectively. Mean reduction in volume was $44.4{\pm}8.3%$ (p=0.001), $68.1{\pm}4.2%$ (p=0.035), 73.9$73.9{\pm}4.8%$ (p=0.042), $84.5{\pm}5.1%$ (p<0.001) at the same follow up period respectively. Significant improvement of symptom was observed at 3 months after RF myolysis. Transient low abdominal pain and prolonged vaginal bleeding were detected in 3 patients each but spontaneously resolved and no serious complication has been noticed or found. Conclusion: This study shows transvaginal RF myolysis could be a safe and effective method to treat uterine leiomyoma, allowing uterine conservation with significant volume reduction and rapid return to normal activity.

Image Contrast Enhancement Technique for Local Dimming Backlight of Small-sized Mobile Display (소형 모바일 디스플레이의 Local Dimming 백라이트를 위한 영상 컨트라스트 향상 기법)

  • Chung, Jin-Young;Yun, Ki-Bang;Kim, Ki-Doo
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the image contrast enhancement technique suitable for local dimming backlight of small-sized mobile display while achieving the reduction of the power consumption. In addition to the large-sized TFT-LCD, small-sized one has adopted LED for backlight. Since, conventionally, LED was mounted on the side edge of a display panel, global dimming method has been widely used. However, recently, new advanced method of local dimming by placing the LED to the backside of the display panel and it raised the necessity of sub-blocked processing after partitioning the target image. When the sub-blocked image has low brightness, the supply current of a backlight LED is reduced, which gives both enhancement of contrast ratio and power consumption reduction. In this paper, we propose simple and improved image enhancement algorithm suitable for the small-sized mobile display. After partitioning the input image by equal sized blocks and analyzing the pixel information in each block, we realize the primary contrast enhancement by independently processing the sub-blocks using the information such as histogram, mean, and standard deviation values of luminance(Y) component. And then resulting information is transferred to each backlight control unit for local dimming to realize the secondary contrast enhancement as well as reduction of power consumption.

A Study on an Improvement of the Performance by Spectrum Analysis with Variable Window in CELP Vocoder (CELP 부호화기에서 가변 윈도우 스펙트럼 분석에 의한 성능 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Min So-Yeon;Kim Eun-Hwan;Bae Myung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.10 no.6 s.38
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    • pp.233-238
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    • 2005
  • In general CELP(Code Excited Linear Prediction) type vocoders provide good speech qualify around 4.8kbps. Among them, G.723.1 developed for Internet Phone and video-conferencing includes two vocoders, 5.3kbps ACELP(Algebraic-CELP) and 6.3kbps MP-MLQ(Multi-Pulse Maximum Likelihood Quantization) In order to improve the speech qualify in CELP vocoder, in this paper. we proposed a new spectrum analysis algorithm with variable window In CELP vocoder, the spectrum of the synthesised speech signal is distorted because the fixed size windows is used for spectrum analysis. So we have measured the spectral leakage and in order to minimize the spectral leakage have adjusted the window size. Applying this method G.723.1 ACELP, we can got SD(Spectral Distortion) reduction 0.084(dB), residual energy reduction 6.3$\%$ and MOS(Mean Opinion Score) improvement 0.1.

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Percutaneous Acutrak Screw Fixation of Intra-articular Tongue Type Fracture of Calcaneus (설상형 관절내 종골 골절에 있어서 경피적 Acutrak 나사 고정을 이용한 수술적 치료)

  • Lee, Seong-Joo;Choi, Shin-Kwon;Yim, Moon-Sup;Hwang, Yoon-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Foot and Ankle Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 2006
  • Purpose: To evaluate the results of treatments by percutaneous Acutrak screw fixation for intra-articular tongue type fracture of calcaneus, especially in elderly patient or patients with underlying disease including diabetes mellitus. Materials and Methods: Seven cases with intra-articular tongue type fracture of calcaneus, from November 2003 to February 2005, were reviewed. There were 6 males and 1 female with 65 years old mean age (range: $61{\sim}71$ years old). The average follow-up period was 16 months (range: $10{\sim}25$ months). Two Steinmann pins were used for closed reduction. After closed reduction was done like Essex-Lopresti's method, two Acutrak screws were inserted. The third Acutrak screw was inserted at the sustentaculum tali away from sinus tarsi to fix the primary fracture line. The patients were evaluated with Salama scale, the extent of recovery of Bohler angle, state of subtalar joint. Results: Clinical results according Salama scale were excellent in 5 cases, and good in 2 cases. Average preoperative Bohler angle was $13^{\circ}$ (range: $12{\sim}15^{\circ}$). Average postoperative Bohler angle was 31o (range: $23^{\circ}-40^{\circ}$). There were no soft tissue complications. There were two mild subtalar arthritis. Conclusions: We think that percutaneous Acutrak screw fixation is a good option for tongue type fracture of calcaneus in elderly patient or patients with underlying disease including diabetes mellitus.

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Development of Tight-Fitting Garments with a Portable ECG Monitor to Measure Vital Signs (휴대용 심전도 기기와 직물형 전극을 이용한 생체정보 측정용 밀착 의복 개발)

  • Jeong, Yeon-Hee; Kim, Seung-Hwan;Yang, Young-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.112-125
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    • 2010
  • A Holter monitor is used for ECG monitoring of ambulatory daily life in hospital. However, the use of this apparatus causes skin allergies and discomfort in patients because of the attachment gel and tapes used to attach disposable electrodes to the skin. In this study, the development of tight-fitting clothing connected to a portable Holter monitor was proposed. In addition, the use of conductive fabrics as electrodes was proposed; this will enable the use of garments in u-health care for measuring ECG signals. The male subjects were university students in the ages of 20 to 24. Subjective wear sensations of the experimental garments were rated using seven Likert scales. A Likert type scale was used for the evaluation and a 7 point score indicates that it provided the best fit as a tight-fitting upper clothing. Clothing pressure was measured using an air-pack-type pressure sensor (model AMI 3037-2) at 4 locations (the conductive fabric electrode) As results, a male basic sloper for upper clothing was developed and that pattern was manipulated to the tight fit pattern by considering the reduction rate of the percentage stretch in the fabric. The developed tight-fitting garment was superior in terms of subjective sensation and 6t. The mean pressure of the garment with reduction rates of 40% in width and of 50% in length was 8.45gf/$cm^2$. A conductive fabric electrode was developed by considering the sewing method and the developed electrode was detected well. The ECG data were recorded for 13 hr 19 min 44 sec and the artifacts in the ECG signals were recorded for 9 hr 3 min 46 sec (total time: 22 hr 23 min 23 sec). The artifacts data were obtained during heavy activities.

A Study on the Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics in a LP EGR System with Electronic Throttle Control (ETC를 적용한 저압 EGR시스템의 엔진성능 및 배출가스 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jun-Heuk;Lim, Jong-Han;Yoon, Jun-Kyu
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.379-387
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    • 2011
  • Research and development of LP EGR system for the performance improvement and emission reduction on diesel engine is proceeding at a good pace. LP EGR system seems to be helpful method to further reduce$NO_x$ emissions while maintaining PM emissions at a low level because the boost pressure is unchanged while varying EGR rate. This study is experimentally conducted on a 2.0L common rail DI engine at the medium load condition (2000 rpm, BMEP 1.0 MPa, boost pressure 181.3 kPa) that difficult to use large amount of EGR gas because of deteriorations of performance and fuel consumption. And we investigated the characteristics of performance and fuel consumption while varying EGR systems. The overall results using LP EGR system equipped with ETC identified benefits on reduction of PM and improvement of fuel consumption and thermal efficiency while keep the $NO_x$ level compared to HP EGR and LP EGR with back pressure valve.

Food Waste Management Practices and Influencing Factors at Elementary School Food Services (서울지역 초등학교 급식에서의 음식물쓰레기 관리 실태와 영향 요인)

  • Kim, Seoung-Hee;Kwak, Tong-Kyung;Choi, Eun-Hui;Lee, Kyung-Eun
    • Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.815-825
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    • 2007
  • The study was designed to investigate food waste management practices and to identify factors affecting food waste generation at school food services. A total of 202 dietitians employed at elementary schools participated in the survey. The mean food waste weight per school was 77.54 kg, forty percent of the schools generated food waste of $50{\sim}100kg$ every day and 53% generated plate waste less than 50 kg. Three quarters of the dietitians perceived plate waste as a major component of the food waste and vegetable dishes were a major source of the plate waste. Half of the dietitians used a food waste pick-up service for waste disposal, which was the most preferred waste disposal method. Approximately 90% of the dietitians conducted education on plate waste reduction for students but their perceptions on the effectiveness of the education was inconsistent. The contents were environmental issues (70.3%) and unbalanced food choice (56.7%). According to factor analysis based on performance score, solid waste management practices were grouped into 'information collecting and education', 'supervision of production process', 'cooperation with related groups', and 'control over production planning'. Practices appertaining to 'cooperation with related groups', 'information collecting and education' factor need to be improved. Dietitians should pay attention to 'recycle and reuse of left over' practice. Waste generation differed significantly by dietitians' ages and working experience. In order to reduce plate waste, more effective education materials and methods need to be developed and support from principals, teachers, and parents is necessary.